Pojai Akratanakul

Pojai Akratanakul is a Bangkok-based curator and cultural producer. She was Co- curator of Bangkok Art Biennale 2024: Nurture Gaia; and also Curatorial Affairs Lead and Assistant Curator for the previous two editions of the biennale (2020, 2022), as well as The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, a collateral event to the 60th La Biennale di Venezia. Before her extensive work with the biennale, she built a foundation of experience in exhibitions and publications in both Bangkok and New York City, and also managed The Petch Osathanugrah Collection. Her work and research focus on institutional critique and development, and the artist career, particularly within Southeast Asia.

Selected recent curatorial projects include To fall from grace (2025-26) at SAC Gallery, What Cannot Be Forgotten, Must Be Celebrated (2025) at Bangkok University Gallery, Area 721,346 (2023) and Footnotes on Institution (2019), both at Gallery VER. As a member of the collective Charoen Contemporaries, she also co-curated PostScripts, a site- responsive public art project (2018), and co-juried Early Years Project 4: Praxis Makes Perfect at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2019).

Akratanakul holds an MA in Visual Arts Administration (Curatorial Concentration) from New York University. She is on the 2025 Acquisition Committee of OCAC Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, and is currently Project & Research Manager of the Timor-Leste Pavilion at the 61st La Biennale di Venezia.